Tried this tonight, Sunday- right off the bat, parking is hard to find and it is $4.50 to valet.
The restaunt is very small, and their few tables for 2 are butted up to other tables, so you better like it cozy. The lighting is too bright for my tastes, and you can hear other people's conversations, so people tend to talk less.
They did start you off with two papadums and mint chutney (one of my favorite indian elements), so that is a plus. I don't like it when indian places won't give you anything to snack on. Since this was my first time here, I ordered a few standards and a few recommendations- Chicken Tikka, Sheesh Kebob, Kashmiri Pavlir (or something, it was a rice dish), and Vegatable Korma. With some onion Naan.
The food took about 25 minutes to come out to us, which is ok. Unfortunately, the start of the show was the Vegitable Korma. The sauce was rich and the dish was yummy. The Sheesh Kebob was alright. A bit larger in sausage shape, so you get a lot, but it tasted like it had a lot of "filler"...not a great spicy rich lamb taste. Just average. The Chicken Tikka, which only the second I've had not colored red, was dry and unflavorful; a total bust. The Kashmiri rice dish was terrible. It was literally yellow rice with raisins, nuts, and then the peculiar addition of Fruit cocktail. I'm not kidding, they literally dumped the pears, peaches, grapes and little bit of half cherry into the rice. It didn't fly alone, and was even worse mixed with anything else (even Tamarind sauce didn't make it better). The garlic naan was pretty good, tho...a bit more flakey and dry than other places, but in a good way (not oily to the slightest, probably healthier).
The prices were about average for a sit down indian place- $50 for 2 after all is said and done.
I don't think I'd return here. The atmosphere isn't very good and the food was on the lower side of average (with the fruit cocktail rice being laughably bad).
Pros: Good naan, rich korma sauce
Cons: everything else
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